Alain Huyghues Lacour: with our A3000T book at Retro Gaming Play 2017

AHL is one of the first French journalists specialized in video games.

Amigaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

#commodore #AMIGA #CBM #A3000T #retrocomputer #RGP

I miss my AMIGA computers, they are still so far away from me right now...

#amiga #commodore #cbm #A500 #A1000 #A1200 #A600 #CD32 #A2000 #A3000 #A3000T #A4000T #retrocomputer #retrogaming #80s #90s

@thomasfuchs
I didn't do much programming on the #A500 or #A2000HD but when I got the #A3000T, I ran The Heart of Gold #BBS using DLG BBS software and #Fidonet node 1:255/42. I used #AREXX to write apps for the BBS.

Fidonet let you request a list of downloadable files so I wrote an AREXX script to let my BBS users request a list of files and they could come back the next day and browse through it and request files.

Another AREXX script connected to the internet and synchronized a few USENET newsgroups into the DLG message area.

On the A2386 running Slackware Linux, I wrote a simplistic compression program in GNU C that could only compress to a maximum of 25%. I'd like to have that code again too.

@thomasfuchs I don't think there are any photos of my computers but I started with a #VIC20 in 1982, then a #C64, #Amiga 500 in late 1988, Amiga 2000HD, Amiga 3000T, then a self-built PC with an #ASUS #TX97 motherboard with a #Pentium 66 overclocked to 75 MHz and #Win95. The #A3000T had an #A2386 #Bridgeboard which I installed #Slackware #Linux on but not sure whether that counts as a separate computer.

I learned #BASIC on the VIC-20 including creating custom character sets and wrote some simple games with a character moving around the screen.

On the C64 I started writing an adventure game. I had it loading a bitmap and custom font and had a character generator and store working. I had some surface maps and some city and dungeon maps you could walk into and explore. It would be nice to have that disk today.

Video of our 2nd COMMODORE AMIGA A3000T (first was sent to Stefen Egger)

Complete video here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=557149254495066

Music: Will You remember (Gone)
Composer: Thomas Mogensen (DRAX)
Arranger: MRT (2015)
http://remix.kwed.org/

#commodore #amiga #CBM #A3000T #80s #90s #Geek